Prolog: Looking back to the past
“I now pronounce you Stallion and wife. You may now kiss the bride.” Celestia said to the happy couple. The two kissed and everyone cheered. The Mane 6 were the loudest at the exchange as their two best friends where finally wed. The two turned to the audience as Celestia announced, “I hereby present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Cloudsdale.” The cheer got louder as the newlyweds raced down the aisle as red, white, blue, and purple, flower peddles where tossed in happiness. The two smiled at each other and took to the air soon followed by the beautiful moon. Luna couldn’t be any happier. She had a sister in law, the bravest Pegasus in all of Equestria, and a nightmare had finally ended, what more could she ask for? Well a husband in bed was it. “Ranma, please come to bed. We have time before tomorrow’s reception.” Luna replied to her love. “Sigh, I know Luna but… I’m worried about Ranko. You know how she gets when she’s out at night, especially when she’s had some of Pinkie’s punch.”
Luna giggled at this remembering the last time Ranko had the pink party loving mare’s famous punch. They were still wondering how she had gotten that high note during her turn during the first party in Ponyville. That note broke even the glass in Canterlot castle and almost cause poor Celestia to have a fit. “True, but she’s with Fluttershy and I’ve instructed Pinkie NOT to serve any punch.” Slowly Luna left the bed and trotted over to her husband and laid her head against his neck. “What are you really thinking about?” Ranma sighed and looked to his love. “Luna, do you ever miss it? The lives we used to have back there?” Luna sighed and looked out to her moon and stars. “Sometimes, but not always Ranma, I do miss the way everyone treated me like everyone else, not as a Royal Alicorn just a normal citizen. I do miss being able to cook for you, for a family, hopefully ours soon.” She said with a kiss before continuing. “I miss walking around the populace without the guards always being around me, I…” Ranma stopped her once again with a tender kiss to her lips. “I miss it too Luna but we both know this was for the better. We’re finally away from them and we’re together at last.” Ranma nuzzled his wife and they enjoyed the night air. Both thought back to when this all happened, to where it all began going wrong then finally where it was now. Perfect, just as they both dreamed it would be.
Ranma sighed as he leaned against his love once again taking in the sweet scent of her hair which always smelled of fresh morning dew and rain. It was true Luna wasn’t a Pegasus but being an Alicorn Princess of the night made the scent so relaxing. It was one of many things he truly loved about her. She always kept him calm, she was always there for him back there, she could cook the world’s best meal you could ever dream of, and best of all, she loved him just as much as he loved her. This was the life he had dreamed, prayed, begged, wished, and cried for. A life without forced marriages, multiple fiancés who only wanted the marriage to help themselves, two greedy old and insane parents who didn’t care how you felt about anything, a crazy katana wielding mother who wanted to end his life over a stupid contract, a money driven mercenary money shark teenager who only wanted to use him to get filthy rich, and a mallet crazy girl who only cared that he could take her constant physical abuse because he was a martial artist. All was finally perfect, well almost. They still had to worry about a certain black and white coated Unicorn named Ryoga. How he kept getting out of the dungeon and ended up at Applejack’s farm was still a mystery.
Even with the magic inhibiting ring placed on his horn and the highly enchanted manacles that weighed over, currently, ten tons he still got out. Word had it Celestia was close to placing him on the moon like she did with Nightmare Moon but that wasn’t an issue since he seemed well behaved when Applejack or her family was around. How or why the Apples where able to keep him out of trouble till the guard picked him up was still a mystery. Yet still, Ranma could only think back to how his life had changed those five years ago. Yes, five years ago he wasn’t a Pegasus, five years ago he and his sister Ranko where one and the same. Five years ago he was once a human by the name of Ranma Saotome, heir to the Anything Goes Martial Arts, master of the Ki Arts, and was running away from his most painful memory of them all, marrying Akane Tendo of the Tendo School of Martial Arts. Well to be truthful I wasn’t a willing marriage, in actually it was more of being forced by his idiot father Genma Saotome and his even more idiotic friend Soun Tendo to marry one Akane Tendo, the mallet carrying, highly abusive, short fused, willing to hit you for the smallest thing even when you didn’t do a thing at all, teenager with a heavy dislike for males due to an age old pledge and arranged marriage neither of them ever wanted.
Sighing he and Luna kissed once again as the pure white moon surrounded them in both comfort and remembrance, or happy times and of bad times and of even stranger times but everything either could remember began only five years ago, on a tiny blue planet called, Earth, on the island continent of Japan, in the ever growing technological city of Tokyo, in the well-known monster attacked Ward of Juuban. This was where it all began for Luna and Ranma Cloudsdale and where it ended for Ranma Saotome.
Five years ago the Elements of Harmony and the Chaos God Discord had confronted each other and in an unexpected way brought two suffering souls together. This way was sadly by bringing Ponyville and its capital Canterlot to Earth on top of an old mining plantation known as Colton in California, USA. It was also due to the magic’s of Harmony and Chaos that every Equestrian was turned human and forced to take on human lives in secret yet only letting those they trust into their humble town. Sadly the magic did more than this to the two princesses of Equestria, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. The magic confrontation was so powerful both were regressed to the age of children and sent to live with different human families. Celestia had become a sixteen year old girl with very little past other than having lived in the newly named and retaken town of Coltsville.
Luna however was not as fortunate. She had become a three year old and taken in by a family that was not as kind as they seemed. She was taken in by the Tendo Family, a part of the Anything Goes Martial Arts. For a time her life was with a kind hearted mother and strange and often overly emotional father by the name of Soun Tendo. For sixteen years Luna lived as the girl named Kasumi and had to keep her secret from her family for fear of their wish to use it for their own gain and recreate Nightmare Moon. However things changed when all the attention left her and went to a young Martial artist named Ranma Saotome. For a full year Luna or Kasumi as she was called at the time had to watch as young man became more and more frustrated and stressed over the multiple attempts by the human who was her father at the time and his so called friend Genma Saotome, Ranma's father.
For a full year the two had drifted towards each other in friendship till the day of the last wedding attempt. Genma and Soun had almost succeeded in getting Akane, her human little sister in this life, which sadly had some very serious anger control issues. Luckily Nabiki had interfered, along with a small bit of her Alicorn Magic for it was she who lured Genma to the keg full of Nanniichuan or drowned man. She liked Ranma how he and she was. However she did not expect him to run off to Juuban Ward and hoped she could find him in time.